LENIN MISCELLANY.

This question ("self-determination") is of paramount importance.
Moreover, it is inseparably linked with the question of annexations.
I grip your hand firmly and send you my warmest greetings!— Your Lenin

P.S. I sent Alexander a rather thick letter a few days ago. Did he receive it?

[Postscript by N. K. Krupskaya].

Dear A. M.! We have received word from one prisoner-of-war camp that your pamphlet has had enormous success, is being read and discussed by large and small groups alike. They send their thanks to the author.
Warm greetings! Nadezhda Krupskaya.

*) See note 8 to letter 29.
8) A.S.L.P.— American Socialist Labour Party — an American Socialist Labour Party, which inclined toward internationalism.
8) International Socialist Commission — the executive organ elected by the Zimmerwald Conference and which published a "Bulletin" to inform the groups and parties united in Zimmerwald.
4) An obsessive idea.
5) An allusion to the disagreements and struggle that arose between Vladimir Ilyich, on the one hand, and comrades Radek, Pyatakov and others, on the other hand, owing to the latter's deviation on a number of points — in particular and especially on the question of "self-determination" — from the point of view of the Central Organ of the Party. One of the results of these disagreements was, among other things, the cessation of publication of "Kommunist" and Vladimir Ilyich's article directed against comrade Pyatakov: "A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism." Hints at these disagreements are also contained in the following letters (cf. no. 35, no. 38 [postscript on the article of comrade Radek], no. 40, no. 41).

Between ourselves.

34.

Dear A. M.!

Only just now did I learn from Alexander's letter to Gregory about the sad fate of friends in the city from which Alexander came 2).

I hope you will set in motion all your connections and exert all possible and impossible efforts to help them out and assist them in every way?

I have decided not to write to Branting, because my recommendation now in all respects — you understand — is capable of doing harm. It will probably be best if you move the matter through your Norwegian friends. If anything else is needed, telegraph.

(If necessary, perhaps you could approach through Denmark? Through German Social-Democratic deputies as well would be good, but only the right-wingers are very angry with you. Now if you could try through the non-right German Social-Democrats...)

I am surprised that Alexander received only one letter from me. I sent three: the second to that city from which Alexander came (to the "party secretary," at the address of the people's house — telegraph there if you can); the third to his present address. I hope he received the third one by now? I'm waiting for letters from him, but he's being rather stingy with them. Warm greetings to him from both me and N.K. And to you as well. Your Lenin.

1) The letter is undated. The date is taken from the postmark of the place from which it was sent. Above the text of the letter in Vladimir Ilyich's hand is written the sender's address: Ulianow. Spiegelgasse, 12. Zürich. The right half of the postcard (space for recipient's address) is filled by

A. Kollontai.
[4/IV 1916] *).